A participant in a radio contest in Singapore received a cash prize, after organizers withheld it from him in the first stage, on the pretext that he mispronounced the name of the British singer, Tony Hadley, after the artist personally intervened to support him.
Muhammad Chaletan, an employee of the Railways Authority, participated in a well-known radio contest in Singapore, based on which the participants got to know 14 personalities known through their voices, and they succeeded in them.
However, the radio channel refused to grant him the grand prize of 10 thousand Singapore dollars (7000 US dollars), on the pretext that he met 13 votes from 14, and another contestant after him gave the same answers, so the radio chose him to be the prize winner. Two chalets resented the incident and objected, but the answer came that he misjudged the name Hadley, who was the lead singer of the British pop band Spandau Ballet in the 1980s, before setting out on a solo concert.
Two chalets sent a copy of his participation in the competition to Hadley himself, and it came as a surprise that the singer personally responded to the message, saying in a video recording he sent to Chalan: “I listened to the recording, and I know that you have spoken my name completely correctly.”
Even after the British star interfered, the radio channel initially refused to give two chalets the full prize, but retracted its position, the day before yesterday, after a flood of criticism against it over the Internet.
The radio wrote on its Facebook page, "Very sorry ... Since Tony Hadley said that Chaletan correctly pronounced his name, who are we to protest against that?" Two chalets will be given the full prize of $ 10,000 in cash. ”
10 thousand Singapore dollars prize money.
The radio regretted Muhammad Chaletan, and awarded him his prize.